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Women Getting Together: Female artisans in developing nations make crafts like scarves and baskets; under-employed women sell them at Rising International’s home parties in wealthier countries.

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Nonprofit helps pull women and kids out of Third-World poverty with home-based sales.

Call them Tupperware-style parties with a charitable bent, or Avon-flavored sales with a goal of helping women in developing countries. Rising International, which bills itself as the only nonprofit to target the direct-sales market, is ...

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